Car-wheel-cleaning device



N I h P I R G H P OA'R WHEEL CLEANING DEVIGE.

I Patented-Jan. 9, 1883.

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CAR-WHEEL-CLEANING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,306, dated January 9, 183,

Application filed November 20, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, P. HENRY GRIFFIN, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Cleaning Car- Wheels; and I hereby declare that the fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification. i

The nature of this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of devices and apparatus for cleaning car-wheels, and is especially designed as an improvement upon the Letters Patent granted to me September 13, 1881. In the above-mentioned Letters Patent the wheel was cleaned by the discharge of cinders through revolving nozzles, the wheel being stationary; and the object of this invention is to construct a device for cleaning wheels by the projecting of cinders against the wheels, both sides simultaneously, if preferred, but wherein the nozzles are stationary and the wheel is caused to slowly rotate, presenting every point of the surface of the wheel to the action of the cinders, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of my improved device; and Fig. 2 is a plan view, showing the arrangement of devicesfor rotating the wheel to be cleaned.

In the accompanyin gdrawings, A represents a suitable case or housing, the bottom B of which inclines to one side, forming the well 0. Upon opposite sides of this caseA rotate doors D, through one of which the wheel, E, to be cleaned IS introduced into the case upon the curved rollers F F, the latter of which is mounted upon a short shaft, G, properly jour= 'naled in the lower portion of thecase A, and

upon about an even plane with the floor of the compartment within which the device is situated, while the pulley F is secured upon a shaft, H, which receives motion from a belt or chain, I, leading from a pulley upon the shaft J, which is journaled above the case A, as may be desired, and is journaled in suitable bearings. The opposite end of this shaft J communicates motion to the elevator K, which is properly incased within the case L, the lower end of the elevator passing around the pulley M, properlyjourualed at the outletof the well 0. i The upper end of the elevator delivers the cinders which it takes from the well into the chutes N O, which deliver the cinders into the receptacles P, which are mounted upon the blast-pipes RR, the inner ends of which project within the case A, the inner end of the former of which has secured to it broad fantailed nozzle S, while the latter is provided with a narrow fan-tail nozzle, S. In practice the cinders are introduced at the start into the blast-pipe B through the openings beneath the receptacles P, the wheel being placed within the case A, resting upon the pulleys F F. The pulley F, being in motion, communicates a rotary motion to the wheel. Through the connections hereinbefore mentioned, the elevator is likewise set in motion. The doors of the case A being closed, the blast from any suitable fan is let onto the blast-pipes It B, through which it passes with considerable force, gradually carrying the cinders with it to project them forcibly through the nozzlesS S upon the two opposite sides or faces on the wheel and through the core-openings in the wheel, the cinders falling into the well 0, from whence they are elevated by the elevator and discharged into the chutes N O, the bottoms of which should be provided with a suitable screen tor separating the fine dust from the cinders, which latter pass through the said chutes into the receptacles P, from which they are dumped into the blast-pipes, as desired.

By the use of a device constructed substantially as described I am enabled to clean a car-wheel in about one minute, and a great saving in time is had over the employment of the device heretofore patented by me, and when one wheel has been cleaned and the doors are opened t'orits removal another wheel is immediately introduced and the operation above described repeated until the wheels to be cleaned have all been acted upon.

The position of the chutes N 0 may be altered, so as to discharge their contents between the points of the pipesS Sandthe wheel tobe cleaned, thus dispensing with the introduction of the cinders into the pipes R It.

What I claim as my invention is roof 1. In a device for cleaningflcar-wheels, and

in combination with blasts provided with stationary fan-tailed. nozzles, the pulleys F F, 3. In a device for cleaningcar-wheels, and mounted upon proper shafts and driven from in combination with the blast-pipes R R, proany convenient power for the purpose of imvided with the nozzles S S, the curved pulparting a rotary motion to the car-wheel, subleys F F, mounted upon proper shafts, elestantially as and for the purpose set forth. vator K, chutes N O, and cases A L, when con- 2. In a device for cleaning car-wheels, and structed, arranged, and operating substanin combination with the stationarynozzles S S, I tially as and for the purposes herein set forth. of difll rent sizes, the elevator K and chutes I P. HENRY GRIFFIN. O N, for the purpose of elevating and deliver- Witnesses: ing thecinders to the blast, substantially as E. SOULLY, specified. ADAM G. MUNRO. 

